Partner Press Release
Jump-Start Solution Suite From Drake Certivo Accelerates RosettaNet Standards Implementation

Automated Test Process Software Provides Significant Increase in Efficiency and Productivity of Supply Chain Trading Partner Communication

For Release January 23, 2003

For Release January 23, 2003

Newport Beach, CA --

Drake Certivo, Inc., a global provider of standards implementation acceleration products and services for supply chain and trading partner network optimization, today announced the launch of its expanded suite of test products.

Building on the company’s testing services designed to support the RosettaNet Ready ä Software Compliance Program, Drake Certivo has expanded its product line with the Jump-Start Solution Suite ä , a comprehensive combination of tools, services and processes, to support implementation compliance for trading partners.  Components include solution certification, trading partner certification, interoperability testing, Jump-Start testing and the Jump-Start Tool Kit.

“We have seen significant response to the newly enhanced product line,” said Peter Warringer, COO of Drake Certivo.  “The trading partner community expressed a need for solutions to bring their partners online quicker, better and faster, and we are very pleased to respond to this need.”

Industry support for eBusiness standardization is growing with major industry leaders anticipating substantial cost savings by adopting and implementing standards.   Among them, one of the world’s most prominent high-tech companies recently stated publicly its intent to significantly reduce annual supply chain expenditures by implementing RosettaNet standards throughout its trading partner network.

The Drake Certivo Jump-Start Solution Suite was developed to enable organizations to reduce integration costs while easing trading partner specific implementations. 

Jump-Start tools and services provide a common benchmark platform to measure adherence to RosettaNet specifications and trading partner specific requirements.  The solution suite also provides extensive test cases that have a high probability of finding undiscovered errors. Other features include transaction integrity checking as messages are processed across back-end systems, middleware, and transport layers.

What this new product availability means to the trading partner community is that the significant development time, resources and costs that were once dedicated to develop an internal solution can now be focused in other areas of the business.  With the Jump-Start Solution Suite, trading partner implementation and compliance testing is now an automated process – reducing costs and time in creating new trading partner connections.  
 
“Identification and correction of errors is an important step prior to ‘going live’ with a RosettaNet implementation,” stated Tim Sakach, solutions architect for the compliance engine, Drake Certivo. “The tools and services now available from Drake Certivo ensure the identification of errors and their root causes, as well as provide assistance with remedial action.”

About RosettaNet
RosettaNet is an independent, non-profit consortium dedicated to the collaborative development and rapid deployment of open Internet-based business standards that align processes within the global high-technology trading network.  More than 450 companies representing over $1 trillion in annual information technology, electronic components and semiconductor manufacturing revenues currently participate in RosettaNet’s standards development, strategy and implementation activities. A complete list of member companies and more information on RosettaNet is available at www.rosettanet.org .  RosettaNet is a subsidiary of the Uniform Code Council, Inc. (UCC).

About Drake Certivo
Drake Certivo, Inc is dedicated to driving the adoption of open global standards for supply chain and trading partner network optimization. Drake Certivo products and services are developed with a focus on accelerating standards implementation and deployment, trading partner connectivity and electronic business exchange through implementation acceleration products, professional services, education and certification.

Working with many of the world’s largest standards bodies, Drake Certivo has gained an unparalleled understanding of the tools, services and strategies necessary for organizations to reduce the time, cost, and risk of integration and deployment of standards and trading partner specific implementations. Drake Certivo is the exclusive testing source for the RosettaNet Ready ä solution provider badging service, as well as the administrator of the RosettaNet Interoperability testing program.